REPORT OF THE COUNCIL 
OF THE 
YORKSHIRE PHILOSOPHICAL SOCIETY, 
Eebruary, 1914. 
year ago your Council commenced its Anuual Report by 
congratulating the members on the completion and open¬ 
ing of the new Lecture Theatre. This year it is their painful duty 
to record the death of Dr. Tempest Anderson, the President of the 
Society, to whose generous influence we were indebted for the 
erection of the Hall, the formation of the Architectural Room, aud 
many other improvements in the structure of the Museum. We 
have to go back to the year 1875, nearly 40 years, for the date when 
Dr. Tempest Anderson first became a member of the Yorkshire 
Philosophical Society. He was Honorary Curator of Comparative 
Anatomy since 1877, acted as Local Honorary Secretary to the 
British Association in 1881, when it held its Jubilee Meeting in 
York, was elected a Vice-President of our Society in 1887, Joint 
Honorary Secretary in 1897, an d President in 1906, on the resigna¬ 
tion of the late Sir Charles Strickland. During the whole of that 
time Dr. Tempest Anderson took the warmest interest in the wel¬ 
fare of our Society, and his lectures on the various Volcanoes, 
which he visited from time to time, and on which he was one of the 
leading authorities, added considerably to the reputation of our 
Society in the scientific world. 
The last Council Meeting over which the late President 
presided, was on the 13th January, 1913, and shortly afterwards he 
started on a journey to the Phillipines, and an inspection of the 
great Volcano Krakatau. We had several letters from him, and 
though he complained of feeling the heat, he had returned as far 
